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Emil du Bois-Reymond : Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany /

A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience. Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818-1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his nati...

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Autor principal: Finkelstein, Gabriel Ward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Beginnings; 1 Childhood; 2 Youth; 3 Apprenticeship; II Experiments; 4 Science; 5 Revolution; 6 Paris; III Life; 7 Love; 8 Marriage and Career; 9 Public and Private; IV Fame; 10 Politics and History; 11 Goethe and Darwin; 12 Limits; Notes; Index.